Rummagers rush to the Glacis for the Great Car Boot Sale

The British Ladies Club's (BLC) Great Car Boot sale marked its 21st anniversary by hosting the biggest sale yet on Saturday.

26.05.2013

The British Ladies Club's (BLC) Great Car Boot sale marked its 21st anniversary by hosting the biggest sale yet on Saturday.

Organisers of the annual event this year welcomed 150 stands to the Glacis car park in Limpertsberg, the highest number ever, where bargain hunters arrived in droves to rummage and barter for the array of goods on sale.

“It's fun and it's a social event more than anything else,” BLC member and car boot organiser Susan Sanderson told wort.lu/en, adding: “There are some people I only ever see at the car boot sale.”

Despite forecasters predicting downpours on Saturday, vendors and shoppers were given a taste of what May's weather should be, with blue skies and bright sunshine during most of the morning.

Not that the weather would put off the hardiest of shoppers, who arrived as stallholders were setting up at 6.15am. Demand for places by stallholders, meanwhile, was just as high.

“This has been the biggest year yet. It's fantastic because it gets everyone together and makes them realise there's a community out there,” BLC Treasurer Rachel Burton-Rafferty told wort.lu/en.

The proceeds from the car boot sale places will be donated to charities selected by the Ville de Luxembourg. The British Ladies Club stand will split its proceeds between Luxembourg charity Liewenshaff, helping people integrate into society and the Wilderness Foundation in the UK.